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Demonstrators have been protesting Turkey's government for weeks in cities across the country, sparked by police brutality against citizens angry over plans to destroy an Istanbul park. Hundreds of thousands of protestors took to the streets in citie...

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson thinks she knows who hacked her computers -- but she's not prepared to point any fingers just yet. "Well, I think I know, but I, I’m just not prepared to go ...

CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson's computer was accessed by an "unauthorized, external, unknown party" last year, the company concluded after an investigation. CBS News issued the following statement, which Attkisson tweeted in severa...

The Obama administration may be shifting control of the country's drone program from the Central Intelligence Agency to the Pentagon, but robots can still find jobs at Langley -- as writers, apparently. The CIA's venture capital wing, In-Q-Tel, has i...

The past few years have proved that crowdfunding has evolved into the most effective tool for digital panhandling, bankrolling everything from failed Hollywood films to much more adult fare. Now, a new Indiegogo campaign is attempting to buy the sagg...

Veteran TV journalist Barbara Walters announced her retirement Monday on The View, revealing that her more than 50-year run on television will end in the summer of 2014. Walters, whose career started on the Today Show in 1961, teased the news late Su...

What's the worst job of the year? According to a survey conducted by CareerCast, it's a newspaper reporter. Last week the Wall Street Journal wrote about the findings, which have been causing an uproar in journalism circles. It's no big surprise that...

“If your mother says she loves you, check it out.” I heard those words early in my journalism career. Reporters are trained to verify information they receive by confirming with a trusted source, but the media landscape has changed, even since I firs...

In early 2012, Tumblr hired an editorial team to cover the "ideas, themes and people" of the vast blogging community. That team launched Storyboard, which produced hundreds of fascinating stories on everything from Hurricane Sandy relief to One Direc...

News as we know it is poised to change, and it's in the hands of smartphone users. On March 31, the New York Times ran a photo of New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez taken by sports photographer Nick Laham -- on his iPhone and edited in Ins...

The tone of the Pew Research Center's latest annual State of the Media report, released Monday, is grim. The study found that U.S. newsrooms have cut their staff by about 30% since highs reached in 2000, and journalism is suffering as a result. At th...

In a ruling that could have dramatic consequences for online news agencies and digital journalists, a judge ruled Tuesday that two news outlets should have asked permission before using a Twitter picture from a photojournalist. According to the court...

If you’re an entrepreneur or executive, you’ve probably heard of media training, but you may be unclear on the specifics. Who on the team should get it? What, exactly, is it? And, wait—if I’m not part of the media, why do I even need it? Before we be...

The final issue of Newsweek magazine will hit newsstands on Monday morning, but the publication debuted its last cover online on Sunday morning. The cover (full-size version is below) features a throwback photo of the New York City office building ne...

Since its public launch in mid-2011, Storify's multimedia timelines -- which let users tell stories using a combination of photos, tweets and other forms of content gathered across the web -- have appeared on thousands of websites, from amateur blogs...

Traditionally, journalists have lived for the scoop: Get the story first, and let your competitors read about it on tomorrow's front page. But to be successful at media innovation, journalists and media companies need to focus less on competition and...

Consumers are the driving force behind so many businesses. Each day we hear about brand innovation in the name of new business, from social media campaigns to space jumps. Players in the fashion industry especially are discovering ways to carve out n...

Trends ebb and flow each year in the world of media, but the rise of data-driven journalism hasn't yet slowed. Now more than ever, data influences how content is created and distributed across a multitude of platforms. Aron Pilhofer, founding editor ...

Each year Mashable hosts the Media Summit to celebrate and discuss the biggest trends in media. We consume media in different forms every day, from online to print, and we're gathering the best minds in the industry to share their thoughts. Held on N...

Independent journalist Tim Pool thinks the future of journalism could rely on drones. Mashable is thrilled to announce that he will give an in depth discussion on this at the 2012 Mashable Media Summit. The Mashable Media Summit is a one-day conferen...

News organizations have invested significantly in native apps for iOS, Android, WP7 and even, for a time, webOS -- yet nearly three times as many tablet owners and twice as many smartphone users access news primarily through browsers rather than apps...

John Keefe, senior editor for data news and journalism technology at WNYC, and Emily Bell, professor of professional practice at Columbia School of Journalism, will speak at the Mashable Media Summit on data-driven journalism. The Mashable Media Summ...

Ever since Facebook and Twitter emerged as key tools for news, journalists and newsrooms have performed a high-wire act: They need to use social media to engage their audience in new and inventive ways, while also maintaining ethical standards. Achie...

In 2011, Tim Pool didn't hear about the Occupy Wall Street movement from the news -- he discovered it through social networks like YouTube and Facebook. He ended up seeing a video of a police officer dragging a protester by his leg, and Pool noticed ...

It's been a little less than three months since Mark Luckie left The Washington Post to become manager of journalism and news at Twitter, and now he's got some advice for journalists using the microblogging network. Working in conjunction with Twitte...

Social networking colossus LinkedIn can help journalists find sources, scoops and jobs. Some journalists, however, never get that far. Krista Canfield leads LinkedIn's free journalist training sessions, and she knows exactly where most people go wron...

The Mashable Media Summit is a one-day conference that explores how new forms of technology are redefining media. The brightest minds in the industry will come together Nov. 2 at the TimesCenter in New York City to explore the latest innovations in t...

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